NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A United States Postal Service worker was pistol-whipped by a suspect in the armed attempted robbery of an East Harlem post office on Friday night, police said.
Police responded to the Hellgate Station Post Office located at 153 East 110th St., near Lexington Avenue, just after 6:15 p.m.
The man entered the building armed with a gun and used it to strike a 51-year-old female worker. He demanded the federal employee hand over money, but left with nothing and fled the scene on a bicycle.
The victim was treated at the scene and did not require further medical attention, officials said.
There have been no arrests and the investigation is ongoing.
The violent attempted robbery comes just over a week after 36-year-old Ray Hodges—an on-duty USPS worker assigned to Manhattan—was murdered in a Harlem deli.
Jaia Cruz, 24, was charged with second-degree murder for stabbing Hodges to death during a confrontation over who was next in line to order.
Days later, a 30-year-old female USPS carrier was robbed at gunpoint by two men in Brooklyn who made off with the packages she was working to deliver.